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Exogamy vs Coresidence - What's the difference?

exogamy | coresidence |

As nouns the difference between exogamy and coresidence

is that exogamy is marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law while coresidence is living together, sharing a residence, as of an adult child with a parent.

exogamy

English

Noun

(wikipedia exogamy) (exogamies)
  • marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
  • (label) the fusion of two unrelated gametes

    • Related terms

    * exogamous

    Synonyms

    * (marriage) See also

    Antonyms

    * (marriage) endogamy; see also

    See also

    * intermarriage

    coresidence

    English

    Noun

  • (anthropology) Living together, sharing a residence, as of an adult child with a parent.
  • * 1979 , Irving Goldman, The Cubeo: Indians of the Northwest Amazon , Second Edition, University of Illinois Press, ISBN 978-0-252-00770-5, pages 42–3:
    • The question of coresidence' is of special interest in the Northwest Amazon region because among tribes that do not have sibs but are organized on the basis of patrilocal families it is ' coresidence rather than kinship that has been reported to be the governor of exogamy (Kirchoff, 1931).